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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Typescript of the book review "The Implacable Morel." London, apparently October 1916. 8 1/2 pages, 4to, purple ribbon on rectos of pale blue sheets, double-spaced, with extensive ink corrections and revisions by Shaw (deletions are particularly heavy, revisions total about 80 words in his hand), each leaf creased at horizontal center fold, signed with typed initials at end, inscribed by Shaw at upper left corner of first page: "Proof to G. Bernard Shaw, 10 Adelphi Terrace, W.C." and the date "? Oct 1916."
Shaw's piece is ostensibly a review of E.D. Morel's book Truth & the War (London: The National Labour Press, 1916), a strong anti-war espousal by one of England's leading labor leaders, but it becomes an article on Morel and his unpopular beliefs in which Shaw gives his own opinions on the war: "...Making all allowance for the English dislike of clear thinking and the English conviction that decency demands a certain hypocrisy provided it be transparent enough, to both of which charges Mr. Morel is obnoxious; bearing in mind also that Mr. Morel is half a Frenchman, with a whole Frenchman's power of seeing the British Empire as a Power like any other Power instead of as the subject of John of Gaunt's speech in Shakespeare's Richard II, still it must be said that Mr. Morel is not classed with the Irish politicians who are much more alive to British weaknesses than any Frenchman...Mr. Morel would be well within right and reason if he demanded that the Powers should continually discuss the possibilities of an arrangement without waiting for an actual checkmate; but who can doubt that this is actually taking place all the time? He is also justified in calling on the neutrals to suppress this war as a first step in suppressing all war. But meanwhile the war must go on; and since he no less than the rest of us is under the harrow of that necessity, could he not add a sympathetic commonsense chapter owning to his part in our lot...our whole grudge against him is that he never shakes hands with us." Not in Dan H. Laurence, Bernard Shaw: a Bibliography (Oxford, 1983) and presumably unpublished.
Shaw's piece is ostensibly a review of E.D. Morel's book Truth & the War (London: The National Labour Press, 1916), a strong anti-war espousal by one of England's leading labor leaders, but it becomes an article on Morel and his unpopular beliefs in which Shaw gives his own opinions on the war: "...Making all allowance for the English dislike of clear thinking and the English conviction that decency demands a certain hypocrisy provided it be transparent enough, to both of which charges Mr. Morel is obnoxious; bearing in mind also that Mr. Morel is half a Frenchman, with a whole Frenchman's power of seeing the British Empire as a Power like any other Power instead of as the subject of John of Gaunt's speech in Shakespeare's Richard II, still it must be said that Mr. Morel is not classed with the Irish politicians who are much more alive to British weaknesses than any Frenchman...Mr. Morel would be well within right and reason if he demanded that the Powers should continually discuss the possibilities of an arrangement without waiting for an actual checkmate; but who can doubt that this is actually taking place all the time? He is also justified in calling on the neutrals to suppress this war as a first step in suppressing all war. But meanwhile the war must go on; and since he no less than the rest of us is under the harrow of that necessity, could he not add a sympathetic commonsense chapter owning to his part in our lot...our whole grudge against him is that he never shakes hands with us." Not in Dan H. Laurence, Bernard Shaw: a Bibliography (Oxford, 1983) and presumably unpublished.